Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Librarians should always do their best to teach summer interns important transferable life skills while working in the library... like shelf reading, putting newspapers on sticks, and scrubbing the urine from the inside of the after-hours book drop.

Our interns get to do fun things like go on fruitless scavenger hunts searching for books that are marked as missing inventory, suffer from brain damage after using a really strong magic marker for hours to blacken out barcode numbers on discarded books, and busy themselves with "useful" projects that will never see the light of day.

As a current library employee, former student worker and current MLS student I have done almost (no shoe shining) all of the above and continue to do some of the above. It didn't keep me away! I am in agreement with the teen comment and ideas for my future interns and volunteers!